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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Crowbar

An iron with a crook, used for leverage. (Anglo-Saxon, cruc.)

“Science is as far removed from brute force as this sword from a crowbar.” —Bulwer-Lytton: Leila, book ii. chap. i. p.33.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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